I must say when I got the call from the
IDP about you award I was speechless
there are a great deal of very fine
privacy lawyers all over the world and
to be chosen by them and amongst them
for this work is more than anyone can
dream of so we are very grateful and
very honored
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now you may notice that that's it we
rather than up wait we are grateful and
we in the resistance for the 60 other
privacy lawyers at Covington and Burling
as I said I'm sitting here in Brussels
and we have a privacy team here in
Brussels but we also have a privacy team
in our London office in our Washington
DC office in our New York office in San
Francisco in Silicon Valley and last but
not least in Beijing so group of 16
lawyers all in total during privacy
working with one another and making this
award possible so the award is very much
for all of them every single one of them
rather than just me I'm just a lucky
recipient of it in person but I speak on
behalf of
I remember as if it was yesterday and
this some 15 years ago when I started
doing privacy I got very offering them
apply but interesting what do you
actually do what does the privacy lawyer
do I don't get that question anymore
privacy has entered into everydays life
it entered into newspapers it entered in
on the political agenda and probably the
most important of all it ended into the
boardrooms there's a very great demand
for privacy lawyers obviously in Europe
with the GDP arm and the requirement for
many companies to have a data protection
office but from anything that I can see
sitting here in Brussels the demand is
also outside of the EU but it also has
something to do with developments in
other parts of the world I'm thinking
China I think in Asia where many of
these countries have interesting new
rules that require specialized expertise
so if you want to become that privacy
lawyer or continue on your path to be a
privacy law you will obviously be doing
privacy and you will find this party
intellectually rewarding but also
ever-expanding thank you again to the
IPP thank you 260 colleagues comment on
a burden and thank you to you all for
listening
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